Even though it's no longer on the market, new data has emerged around potential side effects of the permanent birth control device Essure. The device, pulled from the US market two years ago amid ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health regulators plan to warn consumers more strongly about Essure, a contraceptive implant that has drawn thousands of complaints from women reporting chronic pain, ...

Family planning can come with many questions, concerns and fears. Once a woman makes the personal decision to not or no longer have children, there are various types of birth control to consider and ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WPVI) -- A local congressman says the FDA grossly underestimated the harm caused by a contraceptive device. And he alleges the maker paid doctors kickbacks to recommend the device to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health regulators are reviewing the safety of an implantable contraception device after receiving reports of unusual side effects from patients, including fatigue, depression ...

Bayer gained an ally in the ongoing dispute over its contraceptive implant, dubbed Essure. Joseph Gregory, an analyst at GlobalData, stated that claims made by Erin Brockovich, a public safety ...

After months of consideration, FDA has revealed next steps in its oversight of Essure permanent birth control. The agency is requiring maker Bayer to add a boxed warning and patient decision checklist ...

ST. LOUIS -- Women in St. Louis will be among the first in the nation to try a new method of birth control approved by the government last week. Dr. David Levine of St. Luke's Hospital in suburban ...

Dr. Charles Miller, of Chicago, Ill., holds a coil device that is implanted in a woman’s fallopian tubes to form scar tissue which eventually blocks fertilization. Mct file photo Carol Caruso, 37, of ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 8, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Conceptus, Inc. (Nasdaq:CPTS), developer of the Essure ® procedure, the most effective non-surgical permanent birth control method available*, ...

NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Shares of Conceptus gained 21 percent to $12.73 after it obtained a category 1 CPT code for its Essure birth control procedure from the American Medical Association, which could ...

NEW YORK, July 20 (Reuters) - Healthcare company Bayer on Friday said it would discontinue the sale of its birth control product Essure in the United States, citing a decline in sales of the ...